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Author Topic: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)  (Read 14376122 times)

Flying Dice

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AnCaps are anarchists in the same sense that Stalin was a Marxist. They're merely capitalists who think they can rig the market more effectively without buying out whatever state happens to regulate it; they don't actually want anarchy, just a type of order which removes a chunk of the transitional layers between money and power. Note, in particular, that they don't reject the existence of organized militaries, police forces, courts, or even laws, just that they don't have sole control over them.
Well, either I'd either replace the first comparison with, oh, let's say mutualists (in the Proudhonian tradition) or the latter with Communists.  AnCaps are anarchists and Stalin was a Communist, but anarcho-capitalism is its own distinct school from most other conventional schools of anarchism in the same sense that Stalinism can be distinguished from Marxism.  And, in the same sense between the black or red schools of the left, you end up with "true believers" who immediately try to say "that's not *real* X" because it doesn't jibe with their own particular dialectical school of thought that, in its extremes, becomes almost Pythonesque (fitting, considering the infamous scene I refer to was in fact inspired by actual debates in the far left circles).  Indeed, I think by your statements that they don't reject that list of things that you're confusing them, at least in part, with minarchy (basically paring down the government to the bare minimum); anarcho-capitalists consider the state in itself as a coercive monopoly.  It's basically anarchy when you approach it from an extreme libertarian, rather than an extreme social (that is, in the sense of reciprocity and the exchange between equals) context. 

Actually, apparently Proudhon was also a proponent of a limited state as well (to ensure worker's rights, rather than property rights), so minarchism does have a long history in the anarchist movement in general.  I did not know that before compiling this post; learn something every day, I suppose. ^_^

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Whoopsie, this is the Happy thread.  Political debates are not happy.  Political debates are the exact opposite of happy.  I'll be going, now.

Ah, you're correct on the edit, of course, but I was more shooting for "espousing an ideology which one does not practice as a form of propaganda." The dictatorship of the proletariat must actually be of the proletariat, not of some dude who claims to represent them. AnCaps are neither anarchistic literally (they fail primarily in that the system and actors they want are not inclined towards voluntary individual participation or the lack thereof -- the desire to be the ruling class does not equate to supporting individualism), nor (unlike anarcho-syndicalists) in terms of the underlying values and goals of their ideology (which in that example are fundamentally democratic and need-oriented rather than anti-democratic and profit-oriented, though I suppose you could argue that it's just as anti-individualistic, albeit in a less socially damaging way).

But yes, I'll shut up as well. :P
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done with finals

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If the sparrow man bard visiting the fortress wrote a ballad about his experiences, would he set a lighter mood and sing about how all of the guests took their clothes off and held them in bundles while the dwarven fish cleaner recounted the tale of how the first dwarven queen came to power?

This just in, a new DF custom is for audiences to strip naked while listening to stories. More at 11. This is a bug.
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It should probably still be an option ;P
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Must be a pretty big one if he had to empty his inventory of all those heavy clothes to carry it.
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The Skyrim courier conveys a message artistically...
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He's just delivering a package.
Must be a pretty big one if he had to empty his inventory of all those heavy clothes to carry it.
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Come on, you know you want to grab it from him, just to see what it is if nothing else. 
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Come on, you know you want to grab it from him, just to see what it is if nothing else.
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
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At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Come on, you know you want to grab it from him, just to see what it is if nothing else.
I already know what it is.

Thank you for this, I need this GIF; probably more than I should... oh, well.
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Now try it when you're carefully sneaking through a dungeon, you haven't seen any enemies yet but that makes you more wary and the ambient noise is really setting you on edge, and suddenly the camera whirls around to show you a naked courier just as you were about to creep around a pressure plate.
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I think I might actually have found a Homestuck song that I am capable of playing.

(this was my third go-through of the first half of the cello part on electric bass, so sloppiness is because practice)

(original for comparison)
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